Researchable Nuclear weaponry - when MAD fails

This suggestion revolves around the new armament restrictions seen added to the game, seen on the MiG-27 series of aircraft, with their Kh-31 Anti-Radiation missiles being restricted to 11.3 and above in Nuclear Escalation.

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What’s being suggested exactly?

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This suggestion is as simple as it sounds, It would allow the Nuclear weaponry to be researched within a vehicle’s modification menu, and carried in test drives and battles as normal ordnance. This would allow currently nuke-less aircraft into high tier ground to end the match, and into Nuclear Escalation to add diversity to the nuclear capable aircraft in that mode.

I propose this come to all aircraft with a nuclear capability, such as MiG-23, F-4 Phantom, Buccaneer, Tornado IDS, F-15 and MiG-29 this includes all nations with a current or former nuclear-sharing agreements such as Germany, but doesn’t operate their own nukes, as their aircraft are nuclear capable in all ways otherwise.

In terms of where in modifications it would look like the example below with Buccaneer S.2. With the Nuclear bomb modification existing in Rank 4 of the modification tree.

Nuclear bomb

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I propose all nuclear weaponry be Restricted in Air Arcade, Air Realistic, Air Simulator and all naval battles as to avoid excessive use of Nuclear bombs in air to air use, or a guaranteed ship kill, in addition to preventing accidents occurring on the runway all in addition to there being no SP system at work to limit the number and yield of nukes being carried.

However, In ground modes I would propose that all aircraft that receive researchable nukes, have the standard 2500sp cost tied to a nuke, allowing you to end the game early, Identical to the current nuke bombers you are provided in ground.

And in Nuclear thunder, the SP cost should be tied to the yield, and for aircraft that can carry multiple nuclear bombs (such as B-52), have the SP cost to spawn them scale appropriately to the number and yield of the bombs selected.


Would you like to see nuclear weapons be made researchable?
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Thanks for reading my suggestion!

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+1

This is one of my top wants.

This would allow for cooler cinematics (and other things YouTubers make) and other funky things in custom battles, and would allow for nuke types and carriers unlikely to be represented otherwise.

I think nuclear bombs should be restricted to 1.

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Even if they were test drive only it’d still be fine for me.

Big +1.

+1, so I can see AIR-2 Genie available as researchable mod for the F-106 and eventual F-101B.

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TT aircraft should have nuclear bombs +1

Yeah big -1
It would make the existing nuke aircraft completely pointless. The nukes wouldn’t even be useable most of the time. And it would cause a massive imbalance against nations that don’t have domestic nukes. The Soviets can pull out an Su-30SM for their nuke carrier but for example Sweden would still have a Tornado or whatever. And the problem is even bigger in NE.

+1 it would definitely be funny in customs and could potentially make vehicles like the Tu-95M viable for Nuclear Escalation. Also for countries who are nukeless like Sweden we could take some liberties and give AJS37s or JAS39C/Es nukes to balance it out. Not sure if the grippy could but I think the viggen was nuke capable if Sweden had nuclear bombs

+1, definitely needed now that we are seeing useable nukes in Nuclear Escalation. Could also be used to open the doors up to other types of nuclear munitions like the AIR-2 Genie or nuclear ALCM’s.

Aren’t lot of nations jets nuclear capable even though they don’t own any? The EF2K had a proposition for nuclear capabilities as it was able to feasibly carry. Even though grippens can’t carry a nuke, Finland has F/A-18 C & Ds that could. Even if the Finnish one in question never carried them, Gaijin is already open for adding armament as long as it’s capable such as in the case of the Malaysian SU-30 getting KH-38s which they never had.

With all the subtrees in the game already, it’s possible. In the rare case there is no option, just keep the current aircraft available.

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+1 for more atomic options.
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Well. Why not.